MJ - Too Dangerous ? Too influential ? Too powerful ?
See "HIStory" tour/album and "This Is iT" : on stage and in "They Don't Care About Us" and "Earth Song" - Jackson had the courage/temerity to literally stand up to the TWO most powerful symbols of the Military Industrial Complex and/or War Machine and/or Prison Industrial Complex - Tanks and Bulldozers - and to quote and reference Martin Luther King and his historic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.

Live Earth : Earth Song
..from 2007 ..to 2009 and Michael Jackson's Earth Song: Rachel Corrie meets Alice In Wonderland .. meets Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth...

Bulldozers, Tanks, the Military Industrial Prison Complex, the War Machine: MJ put himself in the cross-hairs - and probably paid the ultimate price(see "The Final Hit" below)...

Video backdrop, low sound - but in breathtaking HD quality:

July 3, 2010: a typical attempt by Britain's/the world's
gutter, sewer, cesspit corporate media (see the Daily Mail) to character assassinate/crucify an Inconvenient Messenger/Disruptive Truth-Teller ie. Al Gore
"How Saint Al Gore, the Sanctimonious Eco-Crusader, Lost His Halo (and his wife!)"

(Ah yes - we Brits are soooo way ahead of America when it comes to protecting the planet, climate change etc, right?!)

It's also worth remembering of course - whilst on the subject of crucifying messengers - that the This Is It concerts(x50) were set to feature:

- a supersized sinister-satanic bulldozer bursting onto the stage .. stopped in its tracks at the last moment by MJ - arms outstretched
- as well as the following key, highly provocative extract from Martin Luther King Jnr's "I Have A Dream" speech:
"in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation."

Odd isn't how the good - especially the black good - so often die so young: King, Malcolm, Bob Marley, Hendrix ...

"This Is It" - too "Dangerous" ..for the Usual Suspects ?
Travis Payne - Jackson's choreographer- confirms what many had already deduced - watch video interview.
And here's the essential transcript extract:

"One unsung, behind-the-scenes person who can give some great insight into the movie said that one of the highlights of the tour was to be "Dangerous" ...
"Payne said this tour was going to be different because he(Jackson) wanted to bring attention to the destruction of the planet.."

Payne: "This Is It" was very different in that, you know, yes, it was his return to the stage, but I think that there was a much greater purpose for him to do the show than just to return to the stage:  he oftentimes spoke of the condition of the planet and how as humanity we have lost sight of so many things that are important to survive and I think that "This Is It" was a vehicle to continue to convey those messages..." (extract end)

One thing's for sure: the corporate media's relentless attempts over many years to merely character assassinate Jackson à la Al Gore had clearly failed to kill the singer's/messenger's popularity - and at age 50 the iconic MJ had become far more politically dangerous and environmentally-focused than ever. And most importantly of all he was able to directly, subliminally, emotionally, visually, magically communicate and spread a profound sense of outrage at the fossil-fuelled mIlitary-industrial-corporate War-Machine to a uniqely vast & varied demographic from age 3 to 123(approx). An audience that otherwise can normally be so very easily consumer-ized, commodified, trivial-ized, hyper-sexualized, de-sensitized, material-ized, ego-centrified, mego-tized, cretinized, de-politicized and neutralized....(sorry - we obviously forgot homogenized and
(e-)stupified)

Hmm... Michael Jackson - and the Final Hit ?

Now why on Earth would anyone want to nail, crucify or
(character-) assassinate this inspirational black & white musical icon ?
(Watch extended live Munich concert video)

'Conspiracy Nut'  footnote:
- Dead simple:  obviously the simplest and cleverest way to eliminate MJ would have been to employ 'security agents' to clandestinely replace a few of his painkillers and/or sleep-inducers(tablets, vials, bottles, sachets etc) with identically-packaged, identical-looking, specially prepared fortified/extra-concentrated substitutes or duplicates ie. containing for example twice the normal quantity of active ingredient. The administering doctor would simply have acted as an unwitting patsy and would inevitably take all the blame..
  All-in-all a triple-whammy, win-win-win for the perpetrators. And MJ himself can be smeared, condemned for the HIStory books and for all time as being twice the pill-popping junkie that he had possibly become whilst preparing for his final Most Dangerous Ever concert tour.
And the most likely "perpetrators" - the key suspects ? The usual of course: the fossil-fuelled military-industrial-economic War Machine.

What MJ ?! You dared to stand up to tanks & bulldozers - and the forces behind them - on stage ... and you threatened / promised to deliver FIFTY live climate-change-highlighting performances?
Tragically, the fact is that "They" really do "Care" about "Us" when faced with a threat of such global and enduring magnitude.

Key lyric from "They Don't Really Care About US"
(watch):

"If Martin Luther was livin'
He wouldn't let this be"

And even more potently and provocatively - the opening line from the original audio recording of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech is played/overlaid loudly and proudly on the HIStory album as it was on the eponymous sell-out tour and stage performance:

"In what will go down in history as the greatest march for freedom in the history of our nation"
(..it's also - unsurprisingly and defiantly - included in "This Is It" )

Ah yes, King & The King of Pop.
The Final Hit.
Just make the connection..(all you weird and,er,wacko-as-jacko "conspiracy nuts"..)

Remember:

1) ostensibly the only,er, sensible, credible, non-nutty conspiracy out there - eagerly and shamelessly promoted by the corporate media from the get-go - is that MJ may(well) have been disposed of by malevolent music industry moguls.
So yet another yawningly predictable "false flag" decoy, diversion, distraction for the politically/environmentally dormant masses ...

2) Jackson gets as much radio airplay dead as when alive ... yet the Grammy-winning Earth Song and They Don't Care About Us are never/VERY seldom heard.
Surprise surprise.

3) The now Youtube'd, maturing green-black, dangerous, eco-activist "This Is It" version of "Earth Song" says it all far more eloquently and slam-dunkingly than we ever could. Every judge & jury should see it before returning a verdict.

4) Al Gore (green crusader, Inconvenient Truth, Nobel Prize, Live Earth) was shamelessly witch-hunted and character-assassinated by our eco-hostile media and by the military-industrial-ecomomic machine it serves.

5) Barack Obama's black Green Economy Tsar Van Jones was unceremoniously removed from the White House for doing his job.

Unfortunately the public and most of the Jackson family simply and inevitably/axiomatically fail to understand that the increasingly, evangelically green, anti-war MJ posed a uniquely far-reaching global threat to the environmentally comatose/hostile mindset-norm that the media and our ecologically derelict education systems work so hard to inculcate and perpetuate.